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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Straight Fething Silver!, May 12, 2003
Straight Silver is my favorite book out of the Gaunt's Ghost's series. The book starts off with the Ghost's arriving at a world which as be engulfed in a 40 year tench war, wow. Straight Silver, like all the other Gaunt's ghosts books has wonderful detailed battle scenes, but that is not the reason why this is my favorite. I felt this book had wonderful character development and emotion. Unlike the other books in the series, Straight Silver was the only one almost to bring me to tears. Rawne, Larkin, Caffran, Criid, Soric, Gaunt, and all the ghost seemed to get a upgrade in this book. The writing and descriptions of the characters and the settings were Abnett at his best.Some fans of the Gaunt's Ghosts don't really like this book, other like myself,absolutey love this book. So give it a try, but read all the other first.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not Abnett's best, August 8, 2005
As other reviewers have said, Straight Silver seems more like a continuation and a set-up, than a full and worthy instalment in the Gaunt's Ghosts series.
Which isn't to say that it's a bad book - not the case at all. The Ghosts are sent to a world of trench warfare, to reinforce the burned-out Imperial forces there; but Chaos has also sent reinforcements, and they're preparing for a breakthrough... which is pretty much the sum of the plot.
There IS some good setup, and Abnett again proves that he can write first-rate combat... but we KNEW he could, and the context of this combat isn't much better. Several of the character subplots continue, there's character development... et cetera.
If you're a reader of the series, you'll want this sixth book - if only because it DOES set a few things up for the vastly superior seventh. If you're not, this is probably the worst place you could possibly start. Worth the purchase price, but Abnett could have done much better.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good warhammer 40k book., June 10, 2004
I first read this because Im a fan of warhammer. I played chaos so i was looking for a chaos book. my choices were limited so this was the closest I could get. I thought t was going to be a bore at the beginning. But once the fighting started i couldnt put it down. This was my first warhammer book wich is to bad because Dan Abnitt probably writes the limit of enjoyment warhammer 40k books can go. so I was looking forword to the other four I bought but they just couldnt add up. But if you play warhammer 40k then you will probably like this book.
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